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Midtown Shopping Center in Los Angeles is seeking to expand and upgrade to become a more pedestrian- and family-friendly destination. The retail center had been destroyed in the 1990s riots. It has acquired more land for its expansion.

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TreeHouse, a green home-improvement store that launched in Austin, Texas, four years ago, is poised to expand nationally. Using the retailer's 70% year-on-year revenue growth as a reason to expand, investors are now considering whether to target similarly minded cities such as San Francisco and Seattle or to start more locally and expand to less-green Houston and Dallas.

The retail sector drove job growth in April, according to statistics from the government and ICSC. Retail jobs in shopping centers rose by 33,000, accounting for one-fifth of the 165,000 jobs added in April, ICSC said. Restaurants and bars hired an additional 38,000 people.